Re: How to see the value of each char in a string?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>]

In article <arv4rj$qdk$1@panix2.panix.com>,
David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>How to see the value of each char in a (long) string?
>
>Here's why I need to do that:
>
>In *shell*, (using csh), I yanked a command onto after the
>shell-promt, hit <return>, and got BEEP.
>
>I started hitting C-c's, couldn't kill the command I had
>given.
>
>Whenever I hit another <return>, I'd get echoed a ^G.

My guess is that the command included a pipe to "more", and that's more's
prompt.  Full-screen programs like this don't work well in the *shell*
buffer.  Try typing "q" to get out.

I don't understand what this problem has to do with your original question
about seeing the value of each character in a string.

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